Here is a copy of personal Bio that we found:
| Name: |
Stuart B. Rekant |
| Age: |
57 |
Stuart B. Rekant has been our chairman of the board and chief executive officer since our inception. Mr. Rekant is the founder and has served as the chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Hidden Treasures, Inc., a private television production company specializing in nonfiction programming, since its inception in October 2001. Mr. Rekant has spent more than 25 years in the media and entertainment business with experience as an executive, entrepreneur and producer, having begun his career in the industry in 1975 as an attorney with Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., and later as an entertainment lawyer in private practice. In 1978, he joined HBO as Director and then became vice president of business affairs for the pay television network. In 1983, he went into the independent film finance, production and distribution business. Mr. Rekant began to focus on nonfiction programming and distribution in 1992 when he established U.S. News Productions, the factual programming unit of U.S. News and World Report , where as its president he developed and executive produced a number of documentary series for cable television. In 1994, Mr. Rekant founded Non Fiction Films Inc., a private documentary production company, where he continued to produce series for cable television. Later that year, Mr. Rekant sold Non Fiction Films to Winstar Communications, Inc., a publicly traded provider of broadband communications services and content, at which time he became president of Winstar New Media Company, Inc., the content arm of Winstar Communications. He served in this position until September 2001 and was responsible for building the unit's media and information services business through internal development and acquisitions. Winstar New Media Company eventually grew to include: a film and television production and distribution operation; a radio production, an affiliation and ad sales divisions; Office.com Inc., a joint venture between Winstar Communications and CBS that was a business to business internet portal; and interests in television broadcasting. Mr. Rekant served as chief executive officer of Office.com from 1999 to September 2001. In April 2001, Winstar Communications, along with most of its subsidiaries, including Winstar New Media Company and Office.com, voluntarily filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Mr. Rekant supervised Winstar Communications' sale of its interests in most of its new media and content operations and then departed Winstar to start Hidden Treasures. He received his A.B. from Colgate University and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law.
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